{"id":923725,"date":"2026-10-11T02:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T02:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/923725\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T02:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T02:22:17","slug":"bathurst-1000-live-rookie-zach-bates-on-pole-at-mount-panorama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/923725\/","title":{"rendered":"Bathurst 1000 live: Rookie Zach Bates on pole at Mount Panorama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sun 11 Oct 2026 at 1:14pmSun 11 Oct 2026 at 1:14pm<\/p>\n

46\/161: Will Brown (888) pits from the lead\"Michael<\/p>\n

The leader of the Bathurst 1000 has come into the pits.<\/p>\n

Will Brown led that entire stint, and he stays in the car.<\/p>\n

Matt Payne (19) pits and serves his five-second penalty.<\/p>\n

Sun 11 Oct 2026 at 1:07pmSun 11 Oct 2026 at 1:07pm<\/p>\n

Two entries are not on the lead lap\"Michael<\/p>\n

Is Moffat out. The leaderboard only shows 24 cars<\/p>\n

– Sue<\/p>\n

G’day Sue.<\/p>\n

The leaderboard on the broadcast is only showing 24 cars, but there are still 26 out on track.<\/p>\n

I assume this is because the two wildcard entries has stuffed around the graphics for the broadcast team.<\/p>\n

Currently:<\/p>\n

25th:\u00a0Nathan Herne\/James Moffat \u2014 Garry Rogers Motorsport, Chevrolet +1 lap<\/p>\n

26th:\u00a0Jackson Walls\/Jack Perkins\u00a0\u2014 SCT Motorsport, Ford +14 laps<\/p>\n

Sun 11 Oct 2026 at 1:04pmSun 11 Oct 2026 at 1:04pm<\/p>\n

41\/161: Tim Slade (26) comes in for a second stop\"Michael<\/p>\n

The Grove Racing number 26 is again the first to pit.<\/p>\n

Tim Slade, the co-driver, stays in the car for a second stint.<\/p>\n

Sun 11 Oct 2026 at 12:52pmSun 11 Oct 2026 at 12:52pm<\/p>\n

35\/161: Car 48 pits again, rear tyres horrid after just 14 laps\"Michael<\/p>\n

David Reynolds has come into the pits after just 14 laps.<\/p>\n

We are seeing the rear tyres which have come off, and those tyres are horrid.<\/p>\n

The number 48 car has a big, big issue when it comes to tyres at the end of the race.<\/p>\n

Sun 11 Oct 2026 at 12:39pmSun 11 Oct 2026 at 12:39pm<\/p>\n

Thoughts from some leading co-drivers after first stint\"Michael<\/p>\n

Scott Pye \u2014 888<\/p>\n

It was a tricky first stint.<\/p>\n

We had a lot of speed, so I was able to fuel save massivly.<\/p>\n

Aaron Seton \u2014 10<\/p>\n

It was cool to get it off the line and get a good start.<\/p>\n

Very thankful to the team and looking forward to watching Zach.<\/p>\n

Sun 11 Oct 2026 at 12:30pmSun 11 Oct 2026 at 12:30pm<\/p>\n

25\/161: Number 99 co-driver does a double stint\"Michael<\/p>\n

Cooper Murray remains chilling in the garage.<\/p>\n

Lochie Dalton, his co-driver in the number 99 entry, is doing a second stint.<\/p>\n

Sun 11 Oct 2026 at 12:25pmSun 11 Oct 2026 at 12:25pm<\/p>\n

23\/161: Aaron Seton under pressure for the lead\"Michael<\/p>\n

Aaron Seton (10) has driven a wonderful first stint, and has led the opening 23 laps of this race.<\/p>\n

But he is under pressure from Todd Hazelwood (17) for the lead of the race.<\/p>\n

The top 15 runners have not pitted yet, but they will be very soon.<\/p>\n

Sun 11 Oct 2026 at 12:23pmSun 11 Oct 2026 at 12:23pm<\/p>\n

22\/161: Rear tyres struggling in the opening stint\"Michael<\/p>\n

We are going through the first round of pit stops.<\/p>\n

It looks like tyre degradation could be a major factor today.<\/p>\n

This is the hottest day of the weekend, and some of the rear tyres on the cars that have pitted look awful.<\/p>\n

Sun 11 Oct 2026 at 12:20pmSun 11 Oct 2026 at 12:20pm<\/p>\n

21\/161: Number 48 pits, Courtney out of car after steering complaint\"Michael<\/p>\n

James Courtney was complaining about power steering issues.<\/p>\n

He had pitted; David Reynolds hopped into the car, and the team sent the car out again without inspecting under the hood.<\/p>\n

Sun 11 Oct 2026 at 12:16pmSun 11 Oct 2026 at 12:16pm<\/p>\n

19\/161: Kai Allen pits for car number 26\"Michael<\/p>\n

Kai Allen has come into the pits, and he has hopped out of the number 26 Grove Racing Ford.<\/p>\n

Co-driver Tim Slade has got behind the wheel.<\/p>\n

A very nice first stint by Allen, who had jumped from 11th to seventh before pitting.<\/p>\n

10: Zac Bates\/Aaron Seton\u00a0\u2014 Matt Stone Racing, Chevrolet17: Brodie Kostecki\/Todd Hazelwood\u00a0\u2014 Dick Johnson Racing, Ford18: Anton De Pasquale\/Lee Holdsworth\u00a0\u2014 Team 18, Chevrolet99: Cooper Murray\/Lochie Dalton\u00a0\u2014 Erebus Motorsport, Chevrolet888: Will Brown\/Scott Pye\u00a0\u2014 Triple Eight Race Engineering, Ford48: David Reynolds\/James Courtney\u00a0\u2014 Team 18, Chevrolet19: Matthew Payne\/Will Davidson\u00a0\u2014 Grove Racing, Ford4: Jack Le Brocq\/Harri Jones\u00a0\u2014 Matt Stone Racing, Chevrolet31: Jayden Ojeda\/David Russell\u00a0\u2014 PremiAir Racing, Chevrolet88: Broc Feeney\/Nick Percat\tTriple Eight Race Engineering, Ford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sun 11 Oct 2026 at 1:14pmSun 11 Oct 2026 at 1:14pm 46\/161: Will Brown (888) pits from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,81870,12356,127904,7604,86310,85,40367,917],"class_list":["post-923725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bathurst","tag-bathurst-1000","tag-chevrolet","tag-ford","tag-mount-panorama","tag-sports","tag-supercars","tag-toyota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}